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Dioscorea quartiniana

Botanic Family

Dioscoreaceae

Author

A. Richard

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Angola
• Benin
• Botswana
• Burkino
• Burundi
• Central African Republic
• Chad
• Eritraea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Madagascar
• Malawi
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Natal
• Transvaal - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• rocky outcrop
• grassland

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• May

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Dec

Twining vine with pubescent stems, pubescent trifoliolate to 5-7 foliolate leaves, mucronate end leaflet 100mm x 40mm glabrous or pubescent beneath, fragrant white to pinkish-white flowers, male axillary fascicles with pubescent bracts, male perianth 1.5mm diameter, female lax spikes, acutely angled glabrous cream capsule 20mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• Kew